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 Fit & Goslariense ''Vitriolum per cocturam. Postquam enim terra vitrolata ex vicino monte Rammelo in officinas coctorias delata fuit, facto lixivio, in aheno plumbeo totum Vulcano negotium committunt. Hic postquam fideliter suam navavit operam, perque definitum coctioni tempus crept antes subministravit flammas, liquor ille coctus exhauritur, inque cados ligneos insignis peripheriae & altitudinis transmittitur. Super hæc vasa lignea adornantur, transiroeum in morem, trabeculæ perforatæ. His foraminibus adaptantur, & firmantur calami arundinis, qui ad fundum usque vasis immittuntur. Ubi itaque congelascit, post aliquod temporis intervallum adhærent calamis chrystalli vitriolati, eximium præbentes oculis solamen, pelluciditate sua cum Sapphirina gemma decertantes.''

Here he examine, why Vitriol will onely be boyled in Leaden Vessels, and alledges divers opinions concerning it.

He also mentions an Experiment, which seems pretty, if true; viz. that Vitriol, placed close to Amber, will lose its colour and pungency.

He takes notice, when he sets forth the praises and uses of this Mineral, that it alone may well make up the fourth part of an Apothecaries Shop, and cure the fourth part of Diseases. A Paracelfian assertion!

He forgets not the Sympathetick Powder, made of this substance; nor its vertue in stopping pertinacious Hæmorrhagies; alledging an Example of a Country-man, who having been sorely wounded in his Skull, so that the bleeding could not be stopp'd any other way, had by the application oi this vitriolate powder present help, and soon after a perfect cure of his wound.

R. Vitrioli Goslar in Solis radiis ad album calcinati unicas, pulv. Gummi tragac. purissimi 1. ''unicam. Misc. invicem diligenter, ut fiat pulvis substilissimus sympatheticus.''

His Treatise was not long since transmitted to the Publisher by the Author himself, and there is perhaps as yet never an other Exemplar of it in England; which is therefore intimated here, that our Stationers. may be invited to send for some Copies of it over, the Book seeming to be, both very ingenious, and considerable.

There are in this first part of the Idea considered those Distempers, which respect the diseased Functions Natural, as in the second part he intends to consider those, which regard the diseased Animal Functions, and in the third, such as belong to those, that are appointed for Generation.

Of every Difiem per he endeavours to discover its nature, causes, concomitants, remedies, of which last he delivers great number of prescriptions; which he varieth according to the various tempers and humors of Patients.

He intermixes abundance of Philosophical Speculations and Remarkes, among which are some concerning Fermentation; the noxiousness of all such things, as either destroy or dull the Acid spirit of the Body in the work Rh